Currycomb.



No. 708.597. l Patented Sept. 9. i902.

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CURRYCMB.

(Application filed Apr. 28, 1902.) (N0 Model.)

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ANDREW TEPFER AND OLE M. HELTNER, OF EARLVILLE, ILLINOIS; SAID I-IELTNER ASSIGNOR TO SAID TEPFER.

CURRYCONIB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 708,597, dated September 9, 1902.

Application filed April 28, 1902. Serial No. 105,083. (No model.)

To all whom, it muy concern-.-

Be it known that we, ANDREW TEPFER and OLE MANDERsoN HELTNER, citizens of the United States, residing at Earlville, in the county of Lasalle and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Currycombs and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to currycombs, and more particularly to that class in which a cleaner is employed for expeditiously cleaning the comb-teeth to strip off the hairs and other matter adhering to the comb.

The object of the invention is to provide a comb of this character which shall be simple of construction, durable in use, and comparatively inexpensive of production.

With this and other objects in View the inventionconsists of certain `novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan View of our improved currycoinb. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan View. Fig. 3 is a sectional view with the cleaner in its normal position, and Fig. 4 is a similar View with the cleaner depressed to strip the hairs and other matter from the teeth of the comb.

Referring to the drawings,l denotes a comb, which consists of an angular frame 2, to which is soldered or otherwise secured a thick wire or rod 3, which entirely surrounds the comb and has its ends brought together to form a tang for the handle 5. Comb-bars 6 are secured to the end pieces of the rectangular frame and are spaced apart.

7 denotes spring-sockets located at the corners of the rectangular frame within the same.

8 denotes a cleaner, which consists of a plate 9, having cleaner-bars 10, two for each combbar, so that each side of the comb-bar may be engaged by the cleaner-bars. These cleanerbars are braced by the angle-pieces 11, soldered, riveted, or otherwise secured to said bars, so as to insure the'perfect contact of said bars with the comb-bar, and thus effectually clean the comb-bars.

12 denotes springs seated in spring-sockets and confined between the lower ends of said sockets and the top plate of the cleaner and exerting their energy to hold said plate in the position shown in Fig. 3.

13 denotes a bail formed with cranks 14, having their ends 15 journaled in posts 16, secured to the rectangular frame. The cranks of this bailare providedwith antifriction-rollersl?, adapted to engage the top plate of the cleaner. By elevating the bail the cleaner will be depressed and its cleaner-bars will slide downward along the sides of the combbars, and thus scrape the sides of the combbars as well as remove the hairs and other foreign matter from the teeth of said combbars. The bail is free to swing from one side to the other in the act of raising and lowering it, thus enabling the device to be used with equal facility by both right and left handed persons.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction, mode of operation, and advantages of the invention Will be readily understood without requiring an extended explanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and details of construction maybe made within the scope of the invention Without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with a currycomb having spring-sockets at its corners 5 of a cleaner consistin g of a top plate and cleaner-bars depending therefrom and adapted to engage the op- -posite sides of the comb-bars, braces located top plate of the cleaner, posts proj ecting from our hands in presence of two subscribing witnhe currycomb, and a bail journaled in said nesses.

posts to swing in either direction and provided With cranks to bear upon the cleaner, NlgER' 5 whereby the lat-,ber may be depressed against the tension of said springs, substantially as Witnesses: and for the purpose described. GEORGE S. WILEY,

In testimony whereof We have hereunto set HANS NICHoLsEN. 

